Just call me rodin if you are pleased. Not that my name is rodin. I just like the sound of it and the sculptor of a man deep in thought by rodin. After all what makes man so different than the rest of the animal kingdom if not because our ability to think.
Think about ourselves for a moment if you care. Our senses are not the best. Our vision is so limited if compared to that of the eagle. We can't run as fast as the cheetah. Our nose can't smell a drop of blood from five miles away (a feat easily attainable by the shark). And the current boxing heavyweight champion is no match to any gorilla. Yet we prevail. We can tame the whole animal kingdom if we want to. We can train and teach almost any animal if we are patient enough to do so; even if we can't speak their languages.
For mother nature; even though we cannot beat her and almost always lose once she lashes her anger , we manage to find means and ways to face her. To predict her next course of action even though we are not that successful at that yet. All of this because we can think. By being able to think man has become a dominant force on earth. Yet no one can really understand how only man can think the way man does. We can dissect the brain and describe the function of each part of the brain, yet we cannot fully describe how man achieve the level of consciousness, how ideas are formed.
Even more amazing a collective of brains decades ago managed to create computer. The arts of computing get refined each year, computers are becoming faster every years. Billions of numerical computation can be done in a second nowadays. If we take the speed of electrical impulse in computer and compares it to that in our brains, ours are thousands times slower. Yet amazingly we always managed to beat the computers in areas such as image and voice recognition. No one can quite explain this yet, at least no now. I am not going answer any of this, it is beyond me. My blog is just a place for me to jot down my smattering of ideas and thought because life here in Moscow is so boring. Yet my brain cannot stop thinking.
Think about ourselves for a moment if you care. Our senses are not the best. Our vision is so limited if compared to that of the eagle. We can't run as fast as the cheetah. Our nose can't smell a drop of blood from five miles away (a feat easily attainable by the shark). And the current boxing heavyweight champion is no match to any gorilla. Yet we prevail. We can tame the whole animal kingdom if we want to. We can train and teach almost any animal if we are patient enough to do so; even if we can't speak their languages.
For mother nature; even though we cannot beat her and almost always lose once she lashes her anger , we manage to find means and ways to face her. To predict her next course of action even though we are not that successful at that yet. All of this because we can think. By being able to think man has become a dominant force on earth. Yet no one can really understand how only man can think the way man does. We can dissect the brain and describe the function of each part of the brain, yet we cannot fully describe how man achieve the level of consciousness, how ideas are formed.
Even more amazing a collective of brains decades ago managed to create computer. The arts of computing get refined each year, computers are becoming faster every years. Billions of numerical computation can be done in a second nowadays. If we take the speed of electrical impulse in computer and compares it to that in our brains, ours are thousands times slower. Yet amazingly we always managed to beat the computers in areas such as image and voice recognition. No one can quite explain this yet, at least no now. I am not going answer any of this, it is beyond me. My blog is just a place for me to jot down my smattering of ideas and thought because life here in Moscow is so boring. Yet my brain cannot stop thinking.
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